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  • 03:40 - 17.01.2009 Articles >> Cross-cultural Communication

    Shanton Chang

    Abstract:  This paper discusses ways in which student interaction and integration may be
    achieved through curriculum design. It approaches the challenge of localinternational
    student interaction by addressing the shortcomings of traditional
    curriculum development that may not take into consideration the diversity of the
    student cohort adequately. The paper highlights and integrates important
    considerations for internationalisation with various key issues in curriculum
    development, including; rationale and philosophy behind…

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  • 00:00 - 01.12.2004 Articles >> Study Abroad

    Ana Deumert, Simon Marginson, Chris Nyland, Gaby Ramia, Erlenawati Sawir

    Abstract: Between 1995 and 2001, the number of international students studying in OECD nations rose from 1.3 to 1.6 million (OECD 2003), and the cross-border delivery of education, via foreign branch campuses and in distance education modes, also increased significantly. Global demand for international education is fed by the growth in globally mobile work especially in business studies, and information…

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  • 00:00 - 01.12.2006 Articles >> Student Support

    Greg Calvert

    Abstract:  The paper draws on research of 110 international fee-paying students studying Science and Engineering courses in the Schools, Vocational Education and Training, and Higher Education sectors in nine institutions in five Australian states and territories. The research identified that 68 percent of the sample had not had career advice before coming to Australia. This has implications for students’ understandings of Australian education and training, especially entry procedures into…

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  • 00:00 - 01.12.2005 Articles >> Cross-cultural Communication

    Taeko Sakurai

    Abstract: Previous studies have indicated that local/international students intervention programs are beneficial in order to help international students make local friends (e.g., Ward et al 2001). However, no study was found which assessed the effect of multicultural interactions such as activities for international students. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of a bus excursion on international students. Ninety six international students from 12 countries completed surveys one month…

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  • 00:00 - 01.12.2006 Articles >> Student Support

    Felicity Fallon

    Abstract: The Confucian-heritage background, the country of origin and the age of the students in this study have all been found to contribute to the problems experienced by these students, the sources of help they use, and how they relate to these problems. These things must then be considered in providing support services for these students. In particular, the importance of these students’ friends in the help-seeking process must be noted…

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  • 00:00 - 01.12.2004 Articles >> Academic

    Karen Commons and Xiaodan Gao


    Abstract:  Research on the experiences of international students and their adaptation to the education environment in NZ has revealed some dissatisfaction relating to the academic experience of international students in NZ. It has been suggested that the discrepancy between international students’ expectations and reality may sometimes contribute to negative views and difficulties with study. Student Learning Support Service at Victoria University of Wellington has designed…

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  • 00:00 - 01.12.2004 Articles >> Study Abroad

    Chika Anyanwu

    Abstract:  The Federal Government funding cuts since the 1990s have forced many (if not all) Australian universities to find alternative means to subsidise such shortfalls, one of these being increased international enrolment. One of the consequences of this new economic direction is the influx of international students with new kinds of expectations and overwhlmed academic and administrative staff who have not fully appreciated or undertood the full import of such dramatic academic cultural…

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  • 00:00 - 30.11.2007 Articles >> Study Abroad

    Choi, Serene Hyun-Jin, Nieminen, Timo A., Bartylla, C., Bertrand, D., Gong, Y. X., Huber, E., Krüger, K., and Therkildsen, K.

    Abstract: We explore the experiences, both positive and negative, of six visiting research students in physics in an Australian university. We consider their motivations for coming to Australia, their take-home impressions of their visits, and what institutions can do to maximise the success of such visits for both the…

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  • 03:51 - 17.01.2009 Articles >> Academic

    Felicity Fallon, Terry McGrath

    The workshop addresses the interests and needs of those working with international students at
    the secondary school level. It has three main emphases: how to enable both the international and
    the local students to gain the most from the presence of international students in the school,
    academic and classroom management issues and the support and welfare issues associated with
    the education of younger international students.

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  • 03:21 - 17.01.2009 Articles >> Cross-cultural Communication

    Dr Stanley Winter Theron and Clark Liu Wengang

    Abstract: This paper critically assesses the general problems enhancing international student communication, “Global
    Village” general problem!
    As in all human communication, interaction between local and “foreign” students can be problematic on a
    variety of real or perceived levels, and includes factors such as “host and guest cultures”, age and interest
    levels as well as cultural switching between including “host and guest cultures”

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  • 00:00 - 30.11.2007 Articles >> Student Support

    Lynda Lawson

    Abstract: Designed and implemented as a joint project between International student services and the Research Students Centre and overseen by the Dean of Graduate Studies, RIS offers a series of intensive classes, presentations and workshops to new international research students at QUT. The core purpose of this program is to help international research students become familiar with the linguistic and academic expectations as well as the cultural conventions required to…

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  • 11:41 - 14.04.2008 Articles >> ISANA articles presented at other confernces

    Dr Felicity Fallon, President, ISANA International Education Association, Australia and New Zealand.

    Presented at the 2008 APAIE Conference in Japan

    Abstract: This paper explores the issues relating to plagiarism and students from Asian countries, particularly those with a Confucian-heritage background, studying in Australia and New Zealand. It looks at the issues of cultural values and ownership of knowledge as they are related to this issue from the perspective of Hofstede’s Cultural…

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  • 00:00 - 01.12.2006 Articles >> Student Support

    Helen Forbes-Mewett, et al

    Abstract: Growth in the number of international students studying in English language countries has slowed in recent years and this development has generated extended debate amongst university managers and policy makers. In these discussions much attention has focussed on whether the slow down is to be explained by currency realignments, visa requirements, the quality of education, or the increasing competitiveness of the international education market. But what has attracted little attention…

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  • 05:40 - 18.01.2009 Articles >> Student Support

    Peter Kell, Virginie Schmelitschek, Anne Maree Smith and Gillian Vogl

    ABSTRACT:  This paper reports on a community action project that was developed by a
    community committee to assist international students to feel more welcome in
    Wollongong. Research with international students carried out since 2005 by Peter
    Kell and Gillian Vogl found that international students who were well connected to
    their communities experienced greater well being and performed better
    academically. In…

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  • 00:00 - 01.12.2004 Articles >> Student Support

    Gavin Sanderson

    Abstract: This paper reports on research undertaken in a university department to determine if academic staff used a range of theory-based practical teaching strategies that are promoted to assist international students adjust to Australian academe and support their learning. The department has an enrolment of 50 per cent international students and is located at a medium-size Australian university that is in the planning phase of internationalising its teaching and learning activities. A ‘mixed…

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  • 00:00 - 01.12.2004 Articles >> Student Support

    Julie Hockey and Dr Carolyn McSwiney

    Abstract: Concern for newly arrived international students must extend beyond the more obvious group of first year students to include a growing cohort of articulant students arriving in Australia having completed part of their degree in their home countries. This paper describes a dual ‘pre-departure’ and ‘on-arrival’ academic library program developed to meet the differential needs of this cohort in the University of South Australia. It is designed to…

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  • 00:00 - 30.11.2007 Articles >> Cross-cultural Communication

    Amanda Daly and Justine Brown

    Abstract: The New Zealand international education sector has seen significant growth over the last decade. Associated with this change, New Zealand tertiary educators need to be increasingly aware of language and learning needs of students from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB). Certainly, language is seen as an underlying factor influencing student socio-cultural and educational adjustment. The aim of this exploratory study was to examine the ways in which lecturers…

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  • 04:10 - 17.01.2009 Articles >> Multi-ethnic Communication

    Negotiating trust and respect: relationships between staff members at La Trobe
    University International College and Middle Eastern Students

    Usha Rao

    Abstract:  This presentation is based on a very small action research project undertaken by the author at
    La Trobe University International College (LTUIC) early this year when there were over 200
    students from the Middle Eastern countries in ELICOS at LTUIC. The findings were first
    presented in May, 2008 at the…

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  • 05:16 - 18.01.2009 Articles >> Student Support

    Vivienne Anderson

    Abstract: International education research has long been preoccupied with the question of how to foster interaction between
    international and local students. ‘Integration’ is imagined as a desirable endpoint of interaction, where international students become part of the broader social network and local students are accepting of and open to international students. However international-ness and local-ness are problematic categories. Numerous commonalities and differences are subsumed within them, and by considering ‘interaction’ and ‘integration’…

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  • 04:07 - 17.01.2009 Articles >> Student Support

    Sarah Ahern

    Abstract:  International education is a major contributor to the Australian economy. By the end of
    2007, it was ranked third, after coal and iron ore, as an export earner, having overtaken
    tourism to become the most successful service industry in Australia. The financial
    success of the industry, however, overshadows other aspects of the trade in education.
    In this paper, I focus on the role of government policy in international…

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Waves: a DVD Print E-mail
Wednesday, 13 February 2008

The DVD of Waves, the film created by Li Tao was introduced to us at the ISANA Annual Conference in Adelaide in 2007.

The DVD is available for $38.50. This includes postage and handling plus GST.

To order, contact the ISANA Secretariat at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . A detailed tax invoice will be sent and upon payment, the DVD will be posted immediately.

 

ISANA is very happy to be able to assist with the distribution of this film because it does such an excellent job of opening up for us the lives both away from and in the classroom of young students from the Peoples Republic of China. It can also provide a starting board for discussions about some of the larger issues inherent in the education of international students such as the degree of integration/assimilation that is appropriate for each student.

Two ways in which this film could be used are:

  1. During professional development sessions for all who work with international students in your institutions. Attached is a simple set of questions that Dr Felicity Fallon has developed for use in such sessions in the place where she works. These are only a quide to the questions that could be discussed in conjunction with the film and are not meant to be definitive on their own. If you develop your own set of questions and are willing to share them with others, Cheryl Cook, the This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , would be really happy to hear from you and to add them to the ISANA website.
  2. To educate local students about the lives and needs of their fellow students who come from overseas. The Ministry for Education in New Zealand has developed some very comprehensive materials that can be used in conjunction with the film for this purpose.


Please let others know about this wonderful resource. Further orders for it can be obtained by contacting the I This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , Liz Wright. The DVD is available for $38.50. This includes postage and handling plus GST.

To order, contact the ISANA Secretariat at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . A detailed tax invoice will be sent and upon payment, the DVD will be posted immediately.

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